A review by kirsten0929
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. by David Carr

4.0

[2008] One of the best memoirs of addiction I've read. Explores the concept of memory, more specifically, the unreliability of memory, and structures the book around that. He recounts those years of addiction as he remembers them but incorporates interviews and conversations with people who were there, legal documents, newspaper articles, etc. to self-correct. Appropriately, this is a journalistic approach to this journalist's work. I think his writing is fantastic. Sharp, edgy, funny at times, very vidid. He was gracious in his representations of the others in the book, brutally honest about himself. I see some reviewers describe him as arrogant and self-aggrandizing, but I did not find that at all. He may have been so in real life but if it was described in the book at all, it was not presented as complimentary.